On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:55 +0400, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > > Andrew P. wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to > >> extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? > >> Read-only would suffice. > > > > > > Andrew, > > > > Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the > > archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want. > > > > You ought to be able to: > > tar -t foo.tar > list.txt > > edit list.txt > > cat list.txt | xargs tar -x foo.tar > > > > -danny > > > > The archive is actually part of my music collection on > a headless fileserver. I would like to share it with > samba. It's a pity that FreeBSD doesn't have linuxish > arcfs or tarmount, but that sort of thing is not really > needed very often. > > Thanks to all for your kind help! > Andrew P. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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